Tuesday–Thursday, 9:30am–2pm
June 23–25
Non Member: $325
Member: $292.50
This workshop is in response to requests from many students. We live in the northeast where greens dominate a good portion of the year, framing our beautiful landscape during the spring and summer months. In addition, greens are In the middle of the spectrum of visible light for humans, positively affecting our mood, because our visual system doesn’t strain to perceive the color — which allows our nervous system to relax. And yet, many artists, including landscape painters, express frustration with mixing and painting with greens.
The reason for this may lie in the variety and extreme complexity of greens. Being a secondary color made up of varying proportions of blue and yellow; and to that array adding tints, tones and shades, greens are a color family more than a color..
We will start on day #1 making charts using several blues + yellow; then adding black, grey, and white for tints, tones, and shades. On days #2 and #3, we will make paintings with the greens created, adding additional colors as needed. Critique and discussion will be ongoing and wide ranging, with detailed consideration of color composition and directionality. What pairs well with greens? How does a harmonious analogous palette, say, green with blues, make you feel? Greens with a neutral white or grey sky? How about a dynamic complementary composition, maybe warm greens blending into warm reds?
In this workshop landscape painters will learn to get the colors they want, to use them effectively within a painting, and to transform their relationship to green into a loving one.
For questions or assistance please contact Elizabeth Buccino, Director of Education
PLEASE NOTE: The AAN’s Painting studio is equipped with easels and glass top carts for palette use and daily personal storage. Due to this studio’s evening classes in a variety of media, please be prepared to leave your cart and easel clean, store work in progress in drying racks provided, and transport your supplies to and from the studio each day. Storing unused paint in a plastic palette bin is suggested. Thank you in advanced for your consideration.
Oil, Acrylic, or Watercolor Paints: It’s ok to mix and match brands. Lovely brands for oils are Williamsburg, Vasari, Holbein, Old Holland, etc. Less costly brands—Daler Rowney, Utrechts, etc., are fine too, but contain more filler.
Essential primary colors for mixing: Prussian, Thalo & Ultramarine blue, Mixing yellow or a
Primary yellow (Daler Rowney has these, both good neutral yellows), Cadmium red medium
(Hue) or similar—-you want a Cad red that is toward the orange, Alizarin crimson, black and
white.
Optional: Sap green, Mars violet, Yellow ochre, burnt sienna, raw umber, Payne’s grey, yellow
grey, mars orange, juane brilliant No.1. Bring a few favorite mixtures that you have—-no need to
buy any for this workshop. We will do some mixing to match later in the day, using the
primaries. Cold wax medium, Soho or Williamsburg; or whatever medium you prefer.
The Masters Brush Cleaner.
Other: Heavy watercolor (or similar) paper, 9”x12” pad, palette (disposable is handy, 12”x16”
size best), rags or paper towels—-lots!!—- pencil, scissors, artist’s tape can be handy. Palette
knife. If you want to try working in my technique, black gesso and Art Spectrum Colorfix Primer
in Aubergine.
Pre-stretched canvases or linen in several sizes and formats (squares, rectangles, and more
extreme horizontals/verticals); or other support or paper, depending on your medium.
